Computer Science Teacher

One of the interesting points Amy Ko makes in her presentation to Microsoft ( CS education in higher education ) is that “Most faculty have ...

Amy Ko posted a slide deck about CS education in higher education from a presentation she made to a group at Microsoft. There is a ton of s...

This past spring semester was my first time teaching remotely but not my first time working remotely. I worked from home while working in in...

Like most K-12 teachers, a membership in a professional society like ACM or IEEE is not funded by my school. So I pay out of pocket for an A...

In my end of course evaluations I asked my students if they learned better online or in the classroom. Not surprisingly, most of them said t...

My last class of the school year just ended. My grades and report card comments are in the system. I am not going back to school in the fall...

Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session ear...

My school ran a pair of online awards events yesterday. We had almost 850 people on the day time Zoom meeting and around 500 on the evening ...

Live coding or as I like to call it coding without a net is a wonderful way to teach.There was a time when I thought that having prewritten ...

There is already a lot of discussion about schools and the fall semester. Will we be in physical spaces again? Will we be online again? Will...

My school will be on our regularly scheduled April break next week. It’s a nice breather for me and probably for the students as well. It’s ...

For the first time in 5 weeks I visited school today. My purpose was to clear out my personal stuff. I am retiring and I needed to get every...

The other shoe dropped today. New Hampshire’s governor ordered public schools to continue emergency remote teaching for the rest of the scho...

This time of year I always start thinking about the next school year. Even though I don’t expect to be teaching (announced my retirement alr...

John Conway died the other day. He created the famous "Conway's Game of Life " that is familiar to so many programmers and co...

While I do believe that people are the most important part of emergency remote teaching ,  technology does have a serious role to play. One ...

Attendance at my emergency remote teaching classes has been very close to 100%. Frankly, this didn’t surprise me at all. Apparently I should...

That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting t...

You may have noticed I didn’t post anything in this blog yesterday. Part of that is because I had to make an unexpected trip to my family’s ...

Recently, I started reading a book about the mathematics of cryptography. ( Mathematics of Secrets ) Fascinating. A lot of the math is hard ...